• Have you ever tried to rescue someone when they didn't even ask for help?

• Have you ever found yourself complaining or stuck listening to complaining?

If yes, rest assured, I have too! You're not alone. All these kinds of situations relate to something called, "drama". Most of humanity is addicted to it. But there is a way out... In this article I'll share how we approach drama at the Breath of Bliss Facilitator training and how to come back to presence.

Imagine this: you’re immersed with strangers for 8+ hours per day for over 20 days, each with their own triggers, shadows, beliefs, attachment patterns, and habitual coping strategies. This intense learning environment requires you to do things that may be new and scary multiple times, every single day. You stand up to be seen, practice speaking your truth to groups, guide others in practices which...

Heartburst! We just completed the Level 1 Self Love Journey on the Crystal Island, Koh Phangan!

What was once a “breathwork training intensive” has now shape-shifted into 6 days of sacred breath ceremonies in a sky temple with participants showing up as initiates into the Great Mystery.

We had a wide variety of participants, both men and women, from England, Spain, Denmark, Slovakia, Germany, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Venezuela, China, the United States, Canada, Australia. They had many backgrounds: yogis, social media marketers, life coaches, psychotherapists, artists, tantrikas, entrepreneurs, shamanic practitioners, a nurse, a school administrator, and more.

Initiates were welcomed as breath mystics, oracles, seers. Together we entered sacred communion with the element of air to discover infinity in the miracle of now, feel everything and unremember everything that wasn’t true.

I’ve recently been fascinated by the work of Dr. Andrew Newberg, a neuroscientist who founded a field of study called, “Neurotheology”, the science of mystical spiritual experiences and the brain. Dr. Newberg takes brain scans of those in intense states of enlightenment, such as meditating monks, praying nuns, mystics visualizing something sacred and others and has discovered profound similarities in brain states in those having transcendent experiences of awakening.

In his Ted Talk, he describes the 4 core elements of enlightenment experiences based on his brain scans:

A feeling of the extremeemotional intensity from activating the limbic system.

A sense of incredibleclarity and understanding from the lobes of the brain rewiring and rebalancing.

Sense of all-pervadingunity, oneness or connection as activity decreases in the parietal lobe, which gives us our sense of self in orientation to the world around us.

Two days ago I shared a Breath of Bliss ceremony at Pyramid Yoga Center set in the jungle of Koh Phangan, Thailand as a free offering to the community to help boost awareness of the upcoming breathwork facilitator training program. The psychic atmosphere on the island was quite odd on that day… it was very windy in an unsettling way, dark clouds, and many I spoke to said they had been feeling ungrounded, restless and anxious in the days prior. As a result, I decided to create a more tender ceremony that was “extra yin” to invite in deep safety, softening and comfort.

GENTLE IS POWERFUL

Believe it or not, many people assume that they've got to be crying their eyes out, yelling, screaming or having loud orgasms to have a profound breathwork session But this just isn’t true. This is a myth perpetuated by those addicted to over activating their nervous systems who need a constant drip of adrenaline to feel alive. In fact, this is one of the reasons I...

So why's “bliss” in the name of our breathwork practice? Here’s the story...

"Nothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss. Nothing is as rich. Nothing is more real.” - Deepak Chopra

WHERE DOES "BLISS" COME FROM?

Bliss is a noun from Old Engligh, “blis”, meaning “merriment, grace, favor, happiness” and also of “spiritual joy, perfect felicity, the joy of heaven” and influenced by the word, “bless”. In Hinduism and Jainism, bliss comes from the Sanskrit word, “ananda”.

Yoga philosophy says that God is "sat-chit-ananda" (existence-consciousness-bliss). Bliss arises after liberation from the death and rebirth cycle. This type of bliss asks for complete surrender to, and merging with, the divine. Those who seek this dissolution into oneness are known as bhaktis, devoted to self-realization through service and love.

My message to you today is this: listen to the call. Trust your vibes. Don’t dim to fit in. Trust that you’re inspiration is a rare gift. If you don’t embrace and honor your gut impulse, it will just move on to someone else who will.

Trying to stay small to get approval from others is a bait and switch game. While many people will love you and anything you offer, the more visible you become the more you may attract those who get triggered by you. Some may even start out loving you and projecting all their wildest dreams upon you, then turn around and attack you.

Here’s the truth: You simply cannot allow others the power to give or take your self worth. It's an inside job. It comes from prioritizing a connection to your higher self. When you self-source and self-validate, you stand tall and strong like a tree connected to the heart of Mother Earth....